You gotta have hope if you are a team who is not quite sellers but not quite buyers. I seem to remember fans having hope into September that the Cubs would get hot and make a playoff run in 2005. I'd love for the Cardinals to perpetually be in that state so that they will never scrap the team, start over, and rebuild. Their pitching staff is a mess and everyone on the team is getting old and injured. If they can stay that way for the rest of the century, all the better. :D